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<div><div class="developer-guide-page developer-guide-angular-services-managing-service-dependencies-page"><p>Angular allows services to declare other services as dependencies needed for construction of their
instances.</p>
<p>To declare dependencies, you specify them in the factory function signature and annotate the
function with the inject annotations either using by setting the <code>$inject</code> property, as an array of
string identifiers or using the array notation. Optionally the <code>$inject</code> property declaration can be
dropped (see &quot;Inferring <code>$inject</code>&quot; but note that that is currently an experimental feature).</p>
<p>Using the array notation:</p>
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function myModuleCfgFn($provide) {
  $provide.factory('myService', ['dep1', 'dep2', function(dep1, dep2) {}]);
}
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<p>Using the $inject property:</p>
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function myModuleCfgFn($provide) {
  var myServiceFactory = function(dep1, dep2) {};
  myServiceFactory.$inject = ['dep1', 'dep2'];
  $provide.factory('myService', myServiceFactory);
}
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<p>Using DI inference (incompatible with minifiers):</p>
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function myModuleCfgFn($provide) {
  $provide.factory('myService', function(dep1, dep2) {});
}
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<p>Here is an example of two services, one of which depends on the other and both
of which depend on other services that are provided by the Angular framework:</p>
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/**
 * batchLog service allows for messages to be queued in memory and flushed
 * to the console.log every 50 seconds.
 *
 * @param {*} message Message to be logged.
 */
  function batchLogModule($provide){
    $provide.factory('batchLog', ['$interval', '$log', function($interval, $log) {
      var messageQueue = [];

      function log() {
        if (messageQueue.length) {
          $log.log('batchLog messages: ', messageQueue);
          messageQueue = [];
        }
      }

      // start periodic checking
      $interval(log, 50000);

      return function(message) {
        messageQueue.push(message);
      }
    }]);

    /**
     * routeTemplateMonitor monitors each $route change and logs the current
     * template via the batchLog service.
     */
    $provide.factory('routeTemplateMonitor',
                ['$route', 'batchLog', '$rootScope',
         function($route,   batchLog,   $rootScope) {
      $rootScope.$on('$routeChangeSuccess', function() {
        batchLog($route.current ? $route.current.template : null);
      });
    }]);
  }

  // get the main service to kick off the application
  angular.injector([batchLogModule]).get('routeTemplateMonitor');
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<p>Things to notice in this example:</p>
<ul>
<li>The <code>batchLog</code> service depends on the built-in <a href="api/ng.$interval"><code>$interval</code></a> and
<a href="api/ng.$log"><code>$log</code></a> services, and allows messages to be logged into the
<code>console.log</code> in batches.</li>
<li>The <code>routeTemplateMonitor</code> service depends on the built-in <a href="api/ngRoute.$route">$route</a> service as well as our custom <code>batchLog</code> service.</li>
<li>Both of our services use the factory function signature and array notation for inject annotations
to declare their dependencies. It is important that the order of the string identifiers in the array
is the same as the order of argument names in the signature of the factory function. Unless the
dependencies are inferred from the function signature, it is this array with IDs and their order
that the injector uses to determine which services and in which order to inject.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="related-topics">Related Topics</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="guide/dev_guide.services.understanding_services">Understanding Angular Services</a></li>
<li><a href="guide/dev_guide.services.creating_services">Creating Angular Services</a></li>
<li><a href="guide/dev_guide.services.injecting_controllers">Injecting Services Into Controllers</a></li>
<li><a href="guide/dev_guide.services.testing_services">Testing Angular Services</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="related-api">Related API</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="api/ng">Angular Service API</a></li>
<li><a href="api/angular.injector"><code>Angular Injector API</code></a></li>
</ul>
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